School gave you knowledge, and took your creativity
Do you ever need to be creative at work? Are you ever charged with coming up with new ideas? Do you struggle?
I reckon the education-industrial complex has some serious questions to answer about its efficacy. The closer my kids get to school-age, the more I think about the ways that school feels more like industrial child-minding than the ideal way to prepare a child for the modern world.
Unfortunately, your schooling has already happened, and we can't rewind three or four decades to give you a different education. You're stuck with the mind you've got. Fortunately, there are some really simple strategies to help you make the most of it.
Like, the box method:
A recent A statement I wrote down “Teach students to ask questions, not answer them.”
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2 年Growing up in the days of rote learning I couldn’t agree more Col Fink Later, working as a design tutor with first year architecture students I noticed they kept asking ‘what do you want?’ (as an outcome for a given design project). I realised their 2nd level schooling and preparation for passing exams ‘well’ was founded on teaching methods that involved a lot of presenting the desired ‘outcome’ at the start and helping the students reproduce their best version of it. Not much creativity there, it strikes me.